[arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 71, Issue 26

[Auguste Pop]

Thank you for such a quick reply. I have another little problem here.
The desktop file in the package uses the icon
/opt/sage/notebook/sage_logo.png, but this file is not installed.


> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:07:57 -0500
> From: Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] why is sage-mathematics so huge?
> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
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> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just noticed that there is a sage-mathematics package in community
>>> repository and tried to install it and found out that the package is
>>> really huge.
>>>
>>> I understand that sage is always shipped in a gigantic bundle, but the
>>> arch package is considerably larger than official packages provided
>>> for other Linux distributions. For lzma compressed archives, they are
>>> typically around 330MB, while the arch package is about 630MB. Why is
>>> the package so big? I have just noticed that the arch version is
>>> 4.5.3, the version on its official site is still 4.5.2. Is this the
>>> reason for the big package?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your kind attention.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>
>> Hi Auguste,
>>
>> I don't know the exact answer to this question, but I think I may know why.
>> Currently, sage keeps all the spkgs in the package.
>> Also it is built with fat binaries although this itself probably
>> doesn't add such a significant amount.
>> I'll investigate this and let you know.
>>
>
> Back with some results :)
>
> I have gone through the directory to see what made it so big, and I
> realized my initial suspicions were correct.
> I have removed about 300mb of spkgs (compressed) and a lot of extraneous logs.
> The changes are already in trunk along with a few other bug fixes.
> Changes should be visible for the next sage release (4.6).
>
> Thanks for your interest!
>
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